[…] widely viewed TV slots and the most influential papers, they could also insist that no opposition views were aired alongside their own. Countless millions were fed ‘ KGB shoots Pope’, while the acquittal of the Bulgarians last March was lucky to hit the back pages. The real plot against the Pope – by Ali […]
[…] Michael Halls who blamed the stress of working for Wilson and Marcia for the early death of her husband; the story that Gaitskell was murdered by the KGB; talk of engineering a split in the Liberal Party over the role of power-sharing with either of the other two parties; talk of engineering a split […]
[…] instance, from what I picked up from a nose-holding skim, Crozier is trying to tell us about a high-placed Soviet mole within the West German government (wow!), KGB control of “world terrorism”,and KGB influence in the West European “peace movement”. Sadly, Crozier has nothing of interest to say on these subjects you couldn’t pick […]
[…] Norwood about her childhood among a group of pro-Soviet radical exiles in England in the 1920s and 30s, when it was revealed in the press, via the KGB defector Metrokhin, that she had been a Soviet spy during and after WW2, leaking nuclear secrets. So Burke’s research shifted its focus and this book is […]
[…] activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist Parties for espionage. In Havana he manages to identify the local KGB chief, but that’s about all, even after endless tailing. Because CIA chiefs are so paranoid about RIS penetration, officers are only given instructions and told nothing […]
[…] selection of primary sources ranging from official archives in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and the USA to private collections and even the records of the KGB (mostly used in the section devoted to the Hess affair). Costello’s assiduous pursuit of documentary evidence and his willingness, for the sake of historical accuracy, to […]
[…] conspiracy theory nutters. But that’s about par for the course in these fields. The examples of Soviet disinformation offered by Gordievsky from the 1980s in his book KGB were laughably incompetent, forgeries which would fool no-one and which had zero distribution as far as I know on this country’s left. And their incompetence brings […]
[…] when another Soviet source ‘Fedora’ notified the FBI that Jack Childs was about to meet with Soviet contacts. The FBI were worried that this might be a KGB attempt to determine whether the FBI knew about the Childs link in the CPUSA/Soviet financial affairs. In the end the rendezvous went ahead and nothing untoward […]
[…] because to the Soviets it appeared that Wynne was a businessman they might recruit. For this reason, according to Brook-Shepherd, Wynne never came under suspicion by the KGB. (3) In some ways then, Wynne, somewhat on the sidelines, became an innocent, though no doubt willing, pawn in a complex intelligence operation by British Intelligence. […]
[…] Ibid The spooks handled the launch of the first volume of The Mitrokhin Archive so badly that I only found out from his obituary that former senior KGB Archivist Vasili Mitrokhin had been a KGB dissident years before he started compiling his private archive. (The Guardian, 4 February 2004) In the obituary Professor Andrew […]
